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The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday on its final voyage which will deliver a pioneering physics experiment to the International Space Station.

"Hoping to get funding for your startup? You’ll have better luck if you aren’t going it alone."

"It's unlike any ballet you've ever seen - a swarm of swirling particles gradually form the shape of a dancer and transform into a lifelike model before they explode into digital bits for the grand finale."

"Some were invented at MIT. Others were simply inspired by time spent at MIT. But all of them have had a profound impact, in one way or another, on society, culture, politics, economics, transportation, health, science, and, oh yes, technology."

“The fundamental dramatic structure of ‘Dhalgren’ is to take ordinary society and then remove a large chunk of it and see what is left."

"2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded to speed along America’s industrial progress through scientific innovation."

“New research reveals that it’s possible for a few individuals to enslave an entire network, even if they aren’t highly connected themselves.”

“A new method of making electricity from sunlight has just been tested.”

“Why would somebody go to MIT for a bachelor’s degree in music?”

“An MIT professor creates an advanced bionic limb giving amputees the power to move forward.” - Video with Hugh Herr

"Joichi Ito initially thought he wouldn’t be a good fit for MIT."

"It's like being in Silicon Valley in the 1990s for energy here now. There are some amazing professors ... Even Obama came here to talk about energy research." - Ben Wheeler, an graduate student in the Leaders for Global Operations program, on being at MIT. The story is part of CNET's series on students and tech jobs.

“Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo — both professors at M.I.T. — have helped changed the practice of economics.”

"CoolChip Technologies yesterday won the MIT Clean Energy Prize for developing a technology that reduces data centers’ cooling needs, said NStar, one of the sponsors."

“When they started iRobot Corp. in 1990, MIT grads Helen Greiner and Colin Angle knew they wanted to build robots; they’d figure out their business model later.” - Part of the special section on MIT at 150